Yahel Castillo

Yahel Ernesto Castillo Huerta ( born June 6, 1987 in Guadalajara) is a Mexican diver. It starts in the art of jumping from the 1- m and 3- m- board and 3 -meter synchronized diving. At a height of 1.67 m his competition weight is 66 kg.

Yahel Castillo, who grew up as an only child, began at the age of 14 years with the water jump. In 2006 his career was interrupted by a broken ankle. Although the doctors certified him a year to recover, he was able to cure the violation within six months. Then he started three months later, in July 2007, at the Pan American Games in Rio de Janeiro, where he scored each of the 3 -meter board an eighth place in the individual competition and a fifth place in the synchronized competition with his compatriot Luis Huerta. In the same year he took part in Grand Prix and World Series competitions, reaching its best finish in the synchronized diving from the 3 -meter board with a third place finish at the Italian Grand Prix and finished third in World Series competition in the domestic Mexico city ​​a seventh place in the individual from the 3 -meter board. The rise in the world's top managed Castillo in the following year, when the Mexicans in front of a home crowd at the World Series competition in Tijuana won the individual competition of the 3 -meter board and other podium places at the China Open ( both in individual and synchronized diving ) and the World Cup in Beijing won. With the Summer Olympic Games in the Chinese capital Castillo appeared as number two in the world in the individual competition of the 3 -meter board. He was counted together with the Chinese jumpers He Chong and Qin Kai, the Canadian Alexandre Despatie and the Russian Dmitri Sautin to the medal candidates, but finished with a victory He Chong's only seventh.

Early July 2009, Castillo took part in the Universiade in Belgrade, where he won the silver medal from the 3 -meter board behind the Chinese Pan Zhaowei. A few weeks later it was announced that Springer had been at the World University games under the influence of alcohol, which brought his athletic scholarship in the amount of 25,500 pesos per month (about 1340 euros ) in danger. Although a penalty of wrongdoing on the part of the Mexican Swimming Federation was still outstanding, Castillo took part in mid-July at the World Championships in Rome, where he took sixth place from the 3 -meter board in the victory of the Chinese He Chong. At the 2011 World Championships in Shanghai, he won together with Julián Sánchez bronze in the 3 -meter synchronized diving. It was his first international medal at a major international championship. In single from the 3 -meter board, he also won sixth place. Very successfully ran the Pan American Games for him in 2011 in his hometown. He won in an individual from the 3 -meter board and with Julián Sánchez in the 3 -meter synchronized diving gold medal each.

Castillo is currently coached by Jorge Rueda and one jumps with a difficulty level of up to 3.9 to his repertoire.

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